. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. t, 4-times as long as linear, 2-dentate,hyaline pale; glumes of staminate spikelet more acute; pale awnless —Sj^ring — Dry hills; coast to middle mountain zone; common. Var. pube§ceii§, Vis. Leaves narrower; spikes fewer, moreslender, with shorter appressed hairs; awn 5-6 times as long as pale —Coast; middle mountain zone; Jordan Valley; Dead Sea, and southwardto Sinai. Tristram says A. scliceiiaiithuni, L., is found at CHRYSOPOGOIV, Trin. Chrysopogon. Sp
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. t, 4-times as long as linear, 2-dentate,hyaline pale; glumes of staminate spikelet more acute; pale awnless —Sj^ring — Dry hills; coast to middle mountain zone; common. Var. pube§ceii§, Vis. Leaves narrower; spikes fewer, moreslender, with shorter appressed hairs; awn 5-6 times as long as pale —Coast; middle mountain zone; Jordan Valley; Dead Sea, and southwardto Sinai. Tristram says A. scliceiiaiithuni, L., is found at CHRYSOPOGOIV, Trin. Chrysopogon. Spikelets at apex of capillaiy branches of panicle ternate, each 2-flowered, the lower floweret neuter, reduced to a membranous pale;the middle spikelet sessile, perfect, the lateral pedicelled, spikelets: glumes 3, nearly equal, longer than pale, thelower coriaceous, short-bidentate, short-aristate, the upper membran-ous, muticous or short-aristate. Stamens 3. Perfect spikelet: glumes3, coriaceous, longer than floweret, the lower concave, acuminate, the 854 GRAMINEiE. (GRASS FAMILY.) Fig. Fpike of Chrysopo-gon Gryllus. upper aristate. Pales membranous, the lower lanceo-late, bidentate at tip, with a long, geniculate, twistedawn, the upper shorter, muticous. Stamens 3; styles2, terminal, stigmas feathery — Perennial herbs witha loose panicle. C. Gryllu§, L. U .5 to .8 or more, tufted;culms erect, simple. Leaves glaucescent, glabrous orsparingly hairy. Branches of panicle whorled, gla-l)rous or hairy at tip; perfect sjnMet with a leard ofgolden hairs at hase; its lower glume with spinulosemargins; upper glume with a very slender awn as longas itself; awn of lower pale many times longer than pale,hairy below; pedicels glabrous, shorter than lateral,glabrous spikelets, — April to June — Fields and dryhillsides; coast to lower mountain zones and interiorplains, and northward, and eastward. 17. SORGHUH, L. Broom-Corn. Dhurah. Spikelets 3 or 3 t
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